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August 2005.Pmd
Newsletter The Periodic Newsletter of Population Media Center September 2005 PMC Launches Radio Serial Drama in the Philippines with UNFPA On July 18, 2005, Sa Pagsikat ng Araw Further, many see family planning as (“The Hope After the Dawn”) went on the being shameful. Some confuse family air nationwide in the Philippines. planning with abortion, which carries much The project began in April 2005 with stigma since many Filipinos are Roman a grant from the United Nations Population Catholic. Some people associate family Fund (UNFPA) in Manila. At that time, planning with prostitution. Some are PMC President Bill Ryerson went to the embarrassed to purchase condoms from Philippines to sign the agreement with drugstores or local shops. Also, the Roman UNFPA and to help PMC Country Catholic Church maintains a strong stance Representative Maggie Cudanin get the against modern methods of family project started. They selected TNS planning and openly advocates for natural Global, one of the most prestigious market methods. research firms in the Philippines, to carry Likewise, there is similar awareness, out a literature review to inform the but lack of knowledge of HIV/AIDS. Many scriptwriters about existing attitudes and believe that it is curable, like other STDs, behaviors regarding reproductive health in and, therefore, do not take precautionary the country. steps to avoid contracting the virus. There In June, Kriss Barker, PMC’s Vice is a lack of effort by those already infected President for International Programs; Tom to undergo treatment or use preventive Kazungu, Director of Radio Production Women working outside; Visayas region of methods in the future. -
An Effective, Scalable Solution: PMC's Entertainment Improves Lives
An Effective, Scalable Solution: PMC’s Entertainment Improves Lives POPULATION MEDIA CENTER Rcting for Change PMC Overview • Population Media Center (PMC) uses entertainment-education • Works globally with broadcast media (radio, TV, online, print) • Non-profit, non-governmental organization, 501(c)(3) Some of the Issues We Address Human Rights • Child Marriage • Gender Equality • Access to Education • Domestic & Other Violence Human Health • Family Planning • HIV/AIDS/STIs • Reproductive Health • Maternal & Child Health • Nutrition • Female Genital Mutilation Environment • Climate Change • Reforestation • Agricultural Practices Proven To Work Around World Impacted more than 50 countries worldwide. Over 500 million people reached. ENTERTAIN People seek PMC’s programming because it’s fun. ROLE MODEL Instead of telling people what to do, show them options. Character-Driven: 3 Types Positive Characters Negative Characters Transitional Characters • Guided by remarkable • Embody the negative • Most similar to target morality and embody the values in the values grid audience positive values in the • Negative behavior is • Faced with real-life dilemmas “values grid” slightly exaggerated • Are rewarded or punished for • Are icons (an ideal to • Are regularly punished good or bad actions (oscillate) which the audience can for their bad behavior •Struggle to change their aspire) • Occasionally suffer behavior • Are constantly rewarded internally and regret their • Eventually move toward for their positive deeds actions but DO NOT positive behaviors -
Fall 2011, KER202 Martin Hilbert Office Hours: by Appointment; Mhilbert [At] Usc.Edu
CMGT 582- Communication for International Development Fall 2011, KER202 Martin Hilbert Office hours: by appointment; mhilbert [at] usc.edu Course description: This course builds on two main concepts: Development: We are usually quick to note that we live in a global communication landscape, but we all too often do not pay enough attention to the fact that 82% of this world is living in conditions that are quite different from ours: the developing world. Half of the human population lives with less than US$2.50 per day, making that a monthly income of less than US$75 for every second member of our global information society. This does not only matter for those who are poor, but shapes the global communication landscape as a whole. We still start with reviewing the multiple dimensions of development. We will discuss questions like: What is development? Is poverty merely a matter of economic well-being? What are the driving forces behind development? What are the dynamics and interplay between developed and developing societies? What is and what can the international community (like the United Nations, World Bank, global NGOs) do about it? We will spend most of the time discussing the question: What is the role of communication as a building block for the development of a society? Digital innovation: At the same time, the introduction of digital ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) changes the lives of all people around the globe (directly or indirectly). In less than two decades, 2 out of 5 people worldwide have linked up through the Internet, and 4 out of 5 have connected with mobile telephony. -
Acceptances and Matriculations Classes of 2015-2018 .Indd
Acceptances and Matriculations classes of 2015-2018 Names in bold italics represent a Class of 2018 matriculation; more than one matriculation last year is noted in parenthesis Australia and Universiteit Leiden University of Ottawa Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology New Zealand Universiteit van Amsterdam University of Toronto (2) Rutgers University University of Waterloo San Jose State University Deakin University University of Windsor Santa Clara University Griffith University United Kingdom Western University Savannah College of Art and Design Monash University (2) Aberystwyth University York University School of the Art Institute of Chicago University of Melbourne Cardiff University Seattle University University of Newcastle City University of London Seton Hall University University of Queensland United States Coventry University Simmons College University of Sydney Albany College of Pharmacy Durham University Skidmore College and Health Sciences Imperial College London Sonoma State University Arizona State University (2) India King’s College London Southeast Missouri State University Babson College London School of Economics Southwestern University Jain University Baylor University and Political Science St. Edward’s University Malaviya National Institute of Bentley University Manchester Metropolitan University Stanford University (2) Technology Berklee College of Music Newcastle University Stony Brook University Motilal Nehru National Institute Boston College Nottingham Trent University Suffolk University of Technology Boston University -
Combating Malnutrition
POSITIVE DEVIANCE INITIATIVE Combating Malnutrition CC in the Land of a Thousand Rice Fields com Positive Deviance Grows Roots in Vietnam¹ by Arvind Singhal, Jerry Sternin, & Lucía Durá photo: Modifed from original by Chris Feser @ fickr. @ fromphoto: Modifed Feser original by Chris Rice farmingRice in Vietnam Positive Deviance Wisdom Series, Number 1, 2009 www.positivedeviance.org POSITIVE DEVIANCE enables communities to discover the wisdom they already have, and then to act on it. “Sternin, you have six months to show results,” noted Mr. Nuu, a high-ranking offcial in the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “What? Six months? Six months to demonstrate impact?” Jerry Sternin could not believe his ears. “Yes, Sternin, six months to show impact, or else, I will not be able to extend your visa.” In December 1990, Jerry Sternin, accompanied by his malnutrition would not yield quick and sustainable wife Monique and ten-year old son Sam, arrived in Hanoi results, the Sternins wondered if the construct of to open an offce for Save the Children, a U.S.-based Positive Deviance, coined a few years previously by NGO. His mission: To implement a large scale program Tufts University nutrition professor Marian Zeitlin,¹ to combat childhood malnutrition in a country where might hold promise. two thirds of all children under the age of fve suffered from malnutrition. Zeitlin broached the notion of PD as she tried to understand why children in some poor households, The Vietnamese government had learned from experience without access to any special resources, were better that results achieved by traditional supplemental feeding nourished than children in other households. -
Listening to Everett Rogers: Diffusion of Innovations and WAC Stephanie Vanderslice University of Central Arkansas
22 Language and Learning Across the Disciplines Listening to Everett Rogers: Diffusion of Innovations and WAC Stephanie Vanderslice University of Central Arkansas In “The Future of WAC” (1996), Barbara E. Walvoord suggests framing the history and future of the writing-across-the-curriculum move- ment according to social movement theory (58), explaining that WAC qualifies as a movement because of its “change agenda and its collective nature—faculty talking to one another, moving to effect reform” (58). Con- sequently, she proposes that her evaluation of WAC’s progress at the 25 year mark and her re-envisioning of its future within this movement frame will uniquely reveal its “characteristics, strengths, and problems in ways that may help us think creatively about them” (61). Certainly creativity may be the order of the day as the WAC move- ment, in spite of its successes, struggles to maintain its vitality and visibil- ity against the perennially resistant landscape of academe. Such resis- tance, educational reform scholar Parker J. Palmer reminds us, (though few at the front lines of the WAC movement need reminding) will remain an essential feature of the academy as long as teaching “retains low status... tenure decisions favor those who publish, [and] scarce dollars. .always go to research” (10). These conditions result in a “constitutional gridlock” which breeds the “mood of resignation. .and despair” so familiar to those seeking reform (10). Walvoord’s review of WAC’s progress from a social movement per- spective turns the literature in an important direction. By providing the template of social movement theory against which to examine their suc- cesses and failures, WAC proponents are forced to take a more analytical approach to their subject, an approach that transcends the more anec- dotal “what works and what doesn’t” scholarship that has dominated writing-across-the-curriculum, especially in its early and middle years. -
Recruitment Guide for Thailand. INSTITUTION Institute of International Education/Southeast Asia, Bangkok (Thailand).; Citibank, N.A., Bangkok (Thailand)
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 421 071 HE 031 416 AUTHOR Yoshihara, Shoko, Comp. TITLE Recruitment Guide for Thailand. INSTITUTION Institute of International Education/Southeast Asia, Bangkok (Thailand).; Citibank, N.A., Bangkok (Thailand). ISBN ISBN-0-87206-245-7 PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 148p. AVAILABLE FROM Institute of International Education/Southeast Asia, Citibank Tower, 9th Floor, 82 North Sathorn Road, Bangkok 10500 Thailand. PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom (055) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS College Admission; Cultural Influences; Foreign Countries; *Foreign Students; Higher Education; Student Characteristics; *Student Recruitment IDENTIFIERS *Thailand ABSTRACT This book is intended to provide U.S. university recruiters with information on higher education and student recruitment opportunities in Thailand. Section A describes recruitment strategies that are professionally and culturally appropriate to Thailand; contact information concerning related institutions is also included. A subsection called "What Thai Students Are Like" identifies the basic characteristics of Thai students. Section B offers detailed information on the development and present situation of higher education in Thailand. Directories of public/private universities and the addresses of related government ministries are included. Finally, in Section C, a basic country profile of Thailand covers such aspects as history, religion, and the language. Attachments to each section provide relevant addresses. Tables provide information on the academic calendar, -
A Summary of Diffusion of Innovations
Les Robinson | Phone 0414 674 676 | Email [email protected] Web www.enablingchange.com.au | Blog http://enablingchange.posterous.com A summary of Diffusion of Innovations Les Robinson Fully revised and rewritten Jan 2009 Diffusion of Innovations seeks to explain how innovations are taken up in a population. An innovation is an idea, behaviour, or object that is perceived as new by its audience. Diffusion of Innovations offers three valuable insights into the process of social change: - What qualities make an innovation spread successfully. - The importance of peer-peer conversations and peer networks. - Understanding the needs of different user segments. These insights have been tested in more than 6000 research studies and field tests, so they are amongst the most reliable in the social sciences. What qualities make innovations spread? Diffusion of Innovations takes a radically different approach to most other theories of change. Instead of focusing on persuading individuals to change, it sees change as being primarily about the evolution or “reinvention” of products and behaviours so they become better fits for the needs of individuals and groups. In Diffusion of Innovations it is not people who change, but the innovations themselves. Why do certain innovations spread more quickly than others? And why do others fail? Diffusion scholars recognise five qualities that determine the success of an innovation. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License. To view a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/deed.en Attribution should be made to “Les Robinson www.enablingchange.com.au”. -
From Green to Sustainable University: Siam University
From Green to Sustainable University: Siam University Professor Dr. Chanita Rukspollmuang “From Green to Sustainable University: Thai University” February 5, 2018, Mahidol University Siam University Moving towards Sustainable University . Siam University – only one leading private university located in the West of Bangkok. Founded in 1965 and was formally established as a private higher education institution with the authorization to grant degrees in 1973. The fifth largest private university with a student body containing over 16,000 students. 11 faculties, 1 international college (3 programs), Graduate school. The university also plays a major role as a stakeholder in the urban development especially in 54 communities at Phasi-Charoen district. Sustainable University, Sustainable District Sustainability • Sustainable University, Policy Sustainable District Strategy • Sustainable Development SD + SEP • Sufficiency Economy Philosophy Targets • Students • Staff (The 3 Ss) • Surrounding Communities Sustainable Development Sustainability Policy Sufficiency Economy • Environment/Energy “Sustainable University, Philosophy (SEP) • Economic Sustainable District” • Socio-cultural Target Groups (The 3 Ss) Students, Staff, Surrounding Communities Academic • Learning • General University- Education Community • SD/SEP Sufficiency Thinking (Mindset) related linkages courses • Student Clubs University – • Training Engagement Activities in SD/SEP Public-Private Research Sector Linkages USR Projects SD/SEP Learning Network Building Local National International -
Message from the President
Welcome Message from the President We are very glad to be back to Bangkok to hold the 14th biennial convention of the East Asian Economic Association (EAEA14) again. Our 5th convention (EAEA5) was held here in 1996, the year before the Asian Financial Crisis began. Subsequently, we witnessed the painful process of economic rehabilitation in the region’s economies. Almost 10 years later, another big shock or the Global Financial Crisis hit them, though they were able to adjust better this time. The EAEA aims “to promote the advancement of economic science with particular reference to Asian economic problems.” We have been tested as to what extent this goal is attained in each convention. Let us turn these challenges into great opportunities. The region’s economies are often regarded as more resilient than those in other regions. They have achieved remarkable progress in industrialization, international trade and investment, macroeconomic management, and human capital formation, but they still face old and new problems in these and other areas. We can learn from these experiences by examining facts, analyzing mechanisms, and proposing policies and then share the knowledge with other regions. This convention heavily owes to many individuals and several private and public institutions. I sincerely hope that their efforts and contributions be fully utilized and rewarded with two days of hot and serious debate, which would be the best way to express our gratitude to them. Akira Kohsaka, Ph.D., Prof. President of the East Asian Economic Association Kwansei Gakuin University 1 Message from the Dean The Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, is delighted to host the 14th International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association during 1-2 November 2014 in Bangkok. -
2009/2010 ANNUAL REPORT Contact Us: Population Media Center P.O
2009/2010 ANNUAL REPORT Contact us: Population Media Center P.O. Box 547 Shelburne, VT 05482 USA T: +1.802.985.8156 F: +1.802.985.8119 E: [email protected] W: www.populationmedia.org Cover Photo taken in Papua New Guinea by Eric Lafforgue. © Designed and produced by Population Media Center. All rights reserved. Photo by Contents Introduction 2 Mission and Map of PMC’s Work 6 Ethiopia 10 Mali 16 Nigeria 18 Rwanda 20 Senegal 24 Brazil 26 Mexico 28 United States 30 Papua New Guinea 36 Vietnam 38 Worldwide: Electronic Game 40 Financial Statement 42 Donors 44 Board of Directors 50 Program Advisory Board 52 Worldwide Staff 60 1 Whenever I visit one of the 25 countries where Population Media Center has been working, I am always struck by the vital importance of our work. The developing world today faces enormous difficulties, and those challenges are made more daunting when women lack the information they need about family planning, reproductive health services, or the prevention of HIV/AIDS. I also see firsthand how important it is to elevate the status of women and combat such harmful social practices as female genital mutilation, child marriage, INTRODUCTION and marriage by abduction. And I am gratified when I see the surveys that document how our programs are successfully changing attitudes and behaviors and promoting positive social change. But I also see in my travels how much work remains to be done. It’s a big world out there, and measured by population, it’s getting bigger – an additional 228,262 people per day. -
Impact of Positive Deviance Approach on Breastfeeding Practices Among Tribal Pregnant Women -A Before-After Intervention Study
See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333566194 Impact of positive deviance approach on breastfeeding practices among tribal pregnant women -A before-after intervention study Preprint · June 2019 CITATIONS READS 0 6 2 authors, including: Sudip Bhattacharya Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences 76 PUBLICATIONS 69 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Thesis View project Implementation of skill development programme in PGIMER, Dietetics Department through video based training and administrative measures on food handlers to improve personal hygiene. View project All content following this page was uploaded by Sudip Bhattacharya on 23 November 2019. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. [Downloaded free from http://www.cjhr.org on Saturday, November 23, 2019, IP: 139.167.85.198] Original Article Impact of the Positive Deviance Approach on Breastfeeding Practices among Tribal Pregnant Women: A Before – After Intervention Study Abstract Abhay Srivastava, Introduction: Breastfeeding is very important for the infant and for the mother. Breastfeeding Kanchan Gwande1, practices in India and abroad are not up to the mark, and they pose serious health risk to the Sudip Bhattacharya, mothers and the babies. Methodology: This single‑group before–after intervention study was 2 conducted to assess the impact of positive deviance (PD) approach on knowledge about exclusive Vijay Kumar Singh breastfeeding (EBF) practices among tribal pregnant women. The sample size was 376. Data were Department of Community collected using convenient sampling method. At first, we identified eight positive deviants from that Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, area.